Modernist Feeling 19th Century Hand-Carved Double Sided Butter Stamp with Geometric Designs victorian embroidery I know that this decoy

I know that this decoy came from the Chesapeake Bay area

1980s or so I believe

All lovely

highly finished carved animals

) And the paint on these

Modernist Feeling 19th Century Hand-Carved Double Sided Butter Stamp with Geometric Designs victorian embroidery I know that this decoyMy first photo here is a composite showing two views of this carved stamp, a butter stamp I believe: target like concentric circles on one end, a cross hatched square on the other, and both sides tapering to the middle like an hourglass. I rarely buy a butter stamp or mold, including for having little expertise about them, but this feels completely transcendent to me, and also like a very modernist feeling carved object, which I'd be as inclined to